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Kuo: OpenAI is working with MediaTek and Qualcomm to develop smartphone chips, with Luxshare handling the system co-design; mass production is expected in 2028 (x.com)
2026-4-27

Sources detail Microsoft's “Windows K2”, an ongoing initiative to address major Windows 11 user complaints about AI features, OS bloat, performance, and more (www.windowscentral.com)
2026-4-27 Microsoft AI

Sources and executives: the war in the Middle East disrupted crucial PCB raw material supplies; Goldman Sachs says PCB prices surged as much as 40% MoM in April (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-27 Goldman

Chinese state media: China formalizes gig worker rules for online platforms, calling for standardized contracts, fair pay, and stronger labor protections (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-27 China

Stuttgart-based Sereact, which develops software for industrial robots to handle tasks they haven't been trained on, raised a $110M Series B led by Headline (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-27 Robot

Filing: Beijing-based GPU maker Moore Threads reports Q1 revenue up 155% YoY to ~$107.89M, and a $4.3M net profit, up from a ~$16.46M net loss in Q1 2025 (www.scmp.com)
2026-4-27

Sources: Jay Chen, who led Tokyo Electron's China operations, left the company after the chip toolmaker discovered his family invested in Chinese competitors (www.ft.com)
2026-4-27 China Tokyo

Taiwan's Intellectual Property and Commercial Court sentences ex-Tokyo Electron engineer Chen Li-ming to 10 years in prison for stealing TSMC's proprietary data (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-27 Taiwan Tokyo

Right-to-Repair Laws Gain Political Momentum Across America (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-27 U.S.

OpenAI publishes a five-principle framework for AGI development, pledging to resist concentrating AI power and to collaborate with companies and governments (www.implicator.ai)
2026-4-27 AI

An interview with Bill Nguyen, a tech entrepreneur who is completely outsourcing parts of his life to an AI assistant in his bid to create a virtual body double (www.semafor.com)
2026-4-27 Interview AI Entrepreneur

Bank Robber Challenges Conviction Based on His Cellphone's Location Data (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-27

Amateur solved a 60-year-old Erd&odblac;s problem with a single GPT-5.4 Pro prompt; Terence Tao says it's a nice achievement, but its long-term significance is unclear (www.scientificamerican.com)
2026-4-27

Cyera agrees to acquire Ryft, an Israeli startup building automated data access and governance tools for enterprise AI deployment, sources say for $100M-$130M (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-4-27 Israel Startup AI

Google Studies Prompt Injection Attacks Against AI Agents Browsing the Web (it.slashdot.org)
2026-4-27 Google AI

Elon Musk Vies to Turn X Into Super App With Banking Tool Near Launch (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-27 Elon Musk

Palantir Slack logs and staff interviews reveal internal debates over the company's ICE and DOD contracts during Trump's second term, its manifesto, and more (arstechnica.com)
2026-4-27 Trump Slack

Collov Labs, whose visual interface lets users feed images and camera input into a model that AI agents can reason over and act on, raised a $23M Series A (www.axios.com)
2026-4-27 AI

Remembering The 1984 Unix PC. Why Did It Fail So Hard? (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-27

How Will Apple Change Under Its New CEO? (apple.slashdot.org)
2026-4-27 Apple

Get certified in 7 CompTIA disciplines with this $50 training bundle (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-27

American utility firm Itron discloses breach of internal IT network (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-27 U.S.

A profile of Dwarkesh Patel, whose podcast has become mandatory listening in the AI community, with guests like Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg (www.nytimes.com)
2026-4-27 AI Elon Musk Zuckerberg

Linux Version of Framework's Laptop 13 Pro is Outselling Its Windows Variant (linux.slashdot.org)
2026-4-27 Linux

New Problem for NASA's 'Lunar Gateway': Corrosion in Two Modules Caused by Supplier (science.slashdot.org)
2026-4-27 NASA

Sources: Tokyo-based humanoid robotics startup Genki Robotics, co-founded by Andy Rubin, raised a Series A at a ~$1B valuation; it raised a ~$50M seed in 2025 (www.axios.com)
2026-4-27 Startup Robot Tokyo

How Teachers Fight Students' Shortening Attention Spans Shorter Activities, Hands-On Projects, and Meditation (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-27

Fans Angry Over Pokemon Go Champion's Disqualification For Allegedly Shaking the Table (games.slashdot.org)
2026-4-27

ASML says it plans to make at least 60 of its standard EUV machines this year, 36% more than it sold in 2025, as it races to meet demand for making AI chips (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-27 AI

Privacy Advocate Accuses US Government of Investing in AI-Powered Mass Surveillance (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-26 AI

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